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No. 65,570. PATENTED JUNE 11, 1867. A. E. HEBERD.

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I Letters Patent No. 65,579, dated June 11, 1 86"!- I IMPROVED WELL-TUBE.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS E. HEBERD, of Homer, in the county oE'Cortland, State of New York, have invented a new and improved mode of constructing and operating Oil, Salt, and Water Wells; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a section of pipe fluted ready for use. I

Figure 2 is a representation of the fluted or prepared tubing with apparatus attached for constructing a water well.

Figure 3 is a. cap resting in and upon the upper end of the tubing, upon which rests- Figure 4, an anvil for driving, when the soil is such as to render such power necessary to force the drill into the ground. i I

Figure 5 is a drill or hit di steel, or other metal hard enough to penetrate and break oil the rock. The

drill or bit D fits into the lower end of the tubing 0 and firmly fastened therein by the rivet F.

My method for constructing the pipe is simple: The tubing or pipe is fluted, as represented in fig. 1. This is done by cutting with a proper tool strips or flutes in the pipe, extending from the bottom or lower end of the pipe or tube, or very near the lower end, upward and as far as the nature of the well to be operated upon requires. In an oil or salt well the fluting should be of much greater length thanin a water well. The number of flutes to be cut in the tube must be governed by the size of the tube, and the amount of oil or water to be passed in and through it. The tubing or pipe should be of iron or other metal.

In its application to oil or salt wells the tubing should be fluted at intervals pf a few feet or continuously, so as to receive the oil or brine, which is now shut out and lost by reason of the tubing of the wells being entire, and only receiving such oiland brine as reaches the well at the foot of it. It is. well known that in putting down oil wells the oil is frequently struck at different points before the well is completed, and by the present plan of tubing the oil that might be saved from-all these sources is lost. My improved plan will save all such oils by opening a passage at any point in the well for the entrance of the oil into the tube and within the reach of the pump. When the tubing is thus prepared the sections are united and placed in the well and the'pump applied, and it is completed. The samerules' apply to salt wells.

In fluting the pipes or tubing for waterwells, the flutes should be cut of such size as to freely admit water, and at the same time prevent the dirt and gravel from enteringthe pipe. The same rule should govern in fluting for oil and salt wells. When the tubing or pipe is so fluted, preparatory to the construction of a water well,

I apply thereto my improved apparatus, which consists of an anger marked D, in figs. 2 and '5, with a diamond v steel-point drill, M. This anger is made with a knob, closely fitting into the lower end of the tubing G C, which rests upon the shoulders of the auger D. The anger is firmly riveted tp the tubing by the bolt F. A cap, A, in figs. 2 and 8, is constructed of iron to closely fit in and rest upon the upper end of the pipe or tubing 0 0. Through the lower part of the cap A is ahole, corresponding with holes in the side of the tubing. When the cap is put in its place a bar, G, is passed through and constitutes a lever or arm. a I

p when the machinery is thus prepared, and place selected for a well, two men take hold of the arm G, and by turning the same with It downward pressure, cause the auger to penetrate-rapidly into the earth. An anvil, B, in figs. 2 and 4, is applied to the cap A, the two being so constructed a; to accurately fit one upon the other, so that when the ground is rocky the work may be expedited by aiding the force of the auger by driving upon the anvil. When the tubing is thus forced into the ground that the water reaches and enters the flutings in silliicient quantities, the cap A, red G, and anvil B are removed, and the apparatus ready for a pump. When the tubing is in sections the coupling of the sections covers the hole through which passes the arm G, and randers the tubing entire.

I further provide with my improved apparatus for putting down this pipe and the construction of wells through quicksands. All methods now in use for the construction of tubed wells, so far as known to me, have no provision for constructing them in such ground, and are utterlyworthless for such purpose. My plan is this: In the lower end of the'cap A I insert a strong hook, H. To this hook I attach a rope of such size as to com pletely fill the tube, which being placed in the pipe or tubing prevents entirely the entrance of guicksands or other substance while the tubing is forced through. When the sand has been passed, and the fluting is beyond it, and weter is reached, thez ope is withdrawn, and the well is prepared for the pump.

I do not claim broudlx as my invention the putting down a tube or pipe into the earth perforated for the entrance of water, to be drawn thence by a pump.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combinaticn of the auger D secured to the tubemC by b'olt F, cap A, anvil B, bar G, with the tube, all

constructed, arranged, and operated as described.

H. E. HEBERD.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR HOLMES, A. 1. SMITH. 

